Male Barn Owl

Canon EOS 1D MKII, 600mm non IS, 1.4x conv, G1548GT, G1321, wimberley head, 840mm, f6.3, 1/25, ISO 1000, 580ex, better beamer, RAW, RSE, CS2, slight crop for comp, lowered exposure by a stop in CS2. In Land Rover full camo and scrim netting.

Hi All,

A couple of weekends ago we went to have a look in my Barn Owl box and found three chicks the eldest was 34 days the youngest 25 days and one in between at 32 days, I am working away at the moment but came home Wednesday and not back up there until Monday so went over this evening hoping to get an image of the young at the entrnce hole with an adult on the ledge with food, well the young were very vocal ( I think there are only two ) but not yet appearing at the entrance hole, so maybe next weekend!

Although I have had my better beamer for nearly four months, tonight was the first time I have used it although I have had to tone it down in CS2 I am very impressed with it.

All comments welcome

Regards

Rob

PS I do have schedule 1

Hi Rob - nice cap

Your 'beamer' will give you a good +2 to +3 stops extra light - on my Nikon gear I usually end up just knocking the SB800 output down by -2.5 EV - if I switch to manual or even just S to try and take the extra stops on the aperture the exposure screws up ( I really will have to read the manuals).

You have done well with the whites against the very dark green. Hope you get lucky with the youngsters

Very interesting shot, Rob - showing a good effect form the beamer

Nice shot of the Owl Rob.
John
Aberdeen

I was looking at the better beamer the other day wondering if I should buy one or not, although I'm not too cluded up on flash photography



Nice capture Rob, hope all goes well with the remaining youngsters.

Tony

Nice one Rob. I've been thinking about a better beamer myself and might just go ahead now.

Malcolm